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3:36:23 PM
Yahoo
Climate Change Experts Despair Over U.S. Attitude (Reuters). Reuters - Climate change experts said on
Tuesday they are frustrated the U.S. government and the public
are not taking the risk of global warming seriously. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]
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3:33:25 PM
CNN
Ex-diplomats: Bush is 'on the wrong track' [CNN Top Stories]
..."We're all career [public] servants who have never taken a political stand," she said, " ... [but] what we want to get on record is our profound concern about the future security of the U.S."...
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1:55:43 PM
CNN Accused contractor: Guards told to keep prisoners awake [CNN Top Stories]
Yahoo Abu Ghraib General Says Told Prisoners 'Like Dogs' (Reuters). Reuters - The U.S. general in charge of Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq was told by a military intelligence commander
that detainees should be treated like dogs, she said in an
interview broadcast on Tuesday. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]
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1:52:45 PM
Reuters
Auditors Take Aim at Halliburton in Iraq. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon auditors took aim at Vice President Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton on Tuesday and said they found "significant deficiencies" in its handling of billions of dollars of work in Iraq. [Reuters: US Domestic News]
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1:34:48 PM
Boing Boing
Bio Diesel conversion primer. On Kevin Kelly's "Cool Tools" ezine, a primer on Bio Diesel -- fuels made from veggie oil. Roll your own renewable fueling station!
I have been running Bio Diesel in my truck for over a year now. Bio Diesel is basically slightly refined vegetable oil that can run in ANY diesel vehicle with little to no modifications. The vegetable oil used can be virgin, but it is generally recycled from fryers at restaurants. Yes, the exhaust smells like whatever was fried in it. The best part of running Bio Diesel is that no wars need to be fought over it: it's entirely domestic, supports US farming, it's totally renewable, and it cuts almost all aspects of a diesel vehicle's emissions by more than 50-75%. (The exception is NOx which is about the same). You get slightly less mileage and power (5% decrease) from petro-diesel, but your exhaust smells a lot better and its actually easier on your engine. Link [Boing Boing]
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10:30:16 AM
Yahoo
Protected areas for world's fish would be cheaper than subsidies: WWF (AFP). AFP - The creation of a vast network of protected marine reserves to shelter fragile stocks of fish would cost less than states are currently spending on subsidies to their fishing industries, the conservation group WWF said in a report. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]
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10:22:53 AM
BBC
$14bn cost of protecting oceans. A team of UK scientists has come up with a cost for establishing a global network of marine "parks" to protect threatened ocean ecosystems. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]
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